Why Sleep Is So Important When You’re Trying To Build Muscle.
Published on September 30, 2016 From injury prevention to an increase in energy, a Life Hacker report explains why sleep is crucial to building muscle You can do intense workouts, eat the right foods and take the right supplements, but your muscles won’t grow without decent sleep. This video from the PictureFit YouTube channel explains how important sleep is for your body when you’re trying to build muscle. In fact, besides your actual workout, sleep is the most important thing. For starters, a lack of sleep means you have less energy to use at the gym during your workouts. You can …
Treatment could lower crash risk for truckers with sleep apnea.
By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Commercial truck drivers who get treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) for two years may reduce their crash risk to the level of drivers without apnea, a study from Italy suggests. For professional drivers, the screening, treatment and management of sleep disorders should be mandatory to reduce accident risk and improve road safety, the study authors write in the journal Sleep Medicine. “Screening for OSA in heavy vehicle drivers should be a major public safety priority,” senior author Luigi Ferini-Strambi, director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Universita Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan, told …
Wearing Sunglasses Before Bed Might Help You Sleep Better, Because Light Has A Surprising Effect On Your Body.
By GEORGINA LAWTON | Sep 29 The side effects that result from a lack of sleep are numerous and worrying: Mood swings, cognitive impairment, irregular heartbeat, increased stress… I could go on. But one strange trick to help you sleep easier that may have escaped mainstream research is wearing sunglasses before bed. I know, I know — it sounds really weird. But bear with me; I promise it’ll be useful. Some scientists postulate that slipping on a pair of sunnies when it gets close to bedtime is the key to better shut-eye, largely because it might help …
Study On Sleep Quality For Astronauts Led By NASA.
OCT 4, 2016 BY JOSE BUTTNER Being out in space in not an easy task, as daily routine can get at least different, if not entirely complicated. This is why NASA decided to study sleep quality as one of the important features of spending time in space. Researchers observed the effects of sleep deprivation and point out the importance of good sleep for space explorers. NASA scientists studied the case of Mir, a Russian space station. The spacecraft functioned for fifteen years (1986-2001), and for almost twelve years it has been inhabited. Vasily Tsibliyev was one of the astronauts …
Poor Sleep May Impair the Ability to Feel Empathy.
Linda Wasmer Andrews If you don’t snooze, you lose some of your capacity for emotional empathy. Posted Oct 03, 2016 Emotional empathy is the ability to share the emotional experience of others. It’s often the driving force behind caring, compassionate behavior. And it’s something that may be in short supply after a bad night’s sleep, according to anew study published online last month by the Journal of Psychophysiology. Lead author Veronica Guadagni, M.Sc., a doctoral candidate at NeuroLab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary, sums up the main finding this way: “If individuals describe their quality …
Why you should never use alcohol to help you fall asleep, according to science.
Lydia Ramsey | Sep. 24, 2016, 11:00 AM That glass of wine right before bed may make you feel drowsy, but don’t rely on it for quality sleep. Scientists have been studying the counterintuitive relationship between the drowsiness that comes from drinking alcohol and actual sleep since at least the 1930s. “If you drink alcohol before bed, it actually makes you fall asleep faster and sleep deeper, but then your body starts to metabolize that alcohol, and you’ll go through withdrawal,” Thomas Roth, director of the Henry Ford Sleep Research Center , told Business Insider’s Christina Sterbenz. “Your sleep will be …
Not all sleep apnea patients are obese.
September 26, 2016 Illustration of obstruction of ventilation. Credit: Habib M’henni / public domain Contrary to popular opinion, not all people who suffer from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are obese. However, a new study from Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) and the Prince of Wales Hospital (POWH) highlights that normal-to-overweight patients with OSA likely require a different approach to treatment, which presents a challenge to clinicians. Obstructive sleep apnoea, a common condition that affects more than one million Australians, occurs when the throat closes off many times throughout the night – up to 100 times per hour of …
Poor Sleep Health Could Contribute to Inflammatory Disease
Published on July 7, 2016 A meta-analysis reports that sleep disturbances and long sleep duration are associated with increases in markers of inflammation. “It is important to highlight that both too much and too little sleep appears to be associated with inflammation, a process that contributes to depression as well as many medical illnesses,” says John Krystal, MD, editor of Biological Psychiatry, the journal in which the meta-analysis was published. Substances that increase in response to inflammation and circulate in the blood stream, such as C-reactive protein (CRP) and interleukin-6 (IL-6), predict adverse health conditions including cardiovascular events, hypertension, and …
Sleep problems often at core of wider health problems, experts say.
Melanie Swan September 16, 2016 Updated: September 16, 2016 11:20 PM DUBAI // Under-diagnosis of sleep disorders is believed to be the cause of a wide range of health conditions, from depression to heart attacks. Human beings spend more than a third of their lives asleep, so it should not really be a surprise that a lack of it can be behind so many major health problems. Dr Mohammed Al Houqani, director of the Al Ain Sleep Laboratory and assistant dean for medical education at the college of medicine and health sciences at UAE University, said health professionals needed …
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